Electrical advertising device.



B. A. NEAGLE. ELECTRICAL ADVERTISING DEVIGE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 17, 1910.

Patented June 13, 1911.

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BERNARD ALPHOSE NEAGLE, OF DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA.

ELECTRICAL ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 13, 1911.

Application filed November 17, 1910. Serial No. 592,914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERNARD A. NEAGLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Durham, in the county of Durham and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electrical Advertising Devices; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in electrical advertising novelties embodying a flash light.

One object of the invention is to provide an advertising device of this character having an improved means for automatically operating a flash light at predetermined intervals.

Another object is to provide a flash light arranged in and adapted to periodically illuminate a transparent glass thereby producing an advertising device, which will be simple and inexpensive in construction, novel and attractive in appearance and well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a rear view of my improved advertising device; Fig. 2 is a side view thereof with parts broken away and in section; Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view through the switch mechanism for periodically completing the circuit of the flash light. Fig. l is a vertical cross sectional view through the extended arbor or spindle of the second hand of the clock looking toward the switch mechanism and showing the manner in which the contact finger of said mechanism is successively engaged with the series of contact pins or terminals for periodically completing the electric circuit to the flash light.

In the embodiment of the invention I provide a clock 1 having a second hand, the spindle 2 of which is extended back through the rear side of the clock and has secured thereto a contact finger 3 which is carried around by the spindle or arbor of the second hand and thus makes one complete revolution a minute.

On the upper side of the clock or arranged in any suitable position and supported in any suitable manner is a bracket 4 on which is arranged a receptacle 5 adapted to contain a glass or other advertising novelty 6. In the glass or advertising novelty 6 is arranged an incandescent electrical lamp 7 which is arranged in an electric circuit having a switch mechanism which is automati cally operated by the second hand pinion of the clock through the contact finger 3 carried thereby.

The switch mechanism for periodically light-ing the lamp comprises a supporting bracket 8 which is secured to the back of the clock and has connected thereto the contact supporting plate 9 which is insulated from the bracket by a disk of insulating material 10. In the plate 9 is formed a centrally disposed threaded passage in which is screwed the inner end of a metal tube 11 to the outer end of which is connected one wire 12 of the circuit. In the plate 9 is also formed an annular series of threaded passages in which are screwed a series of contact screws 13 which also pass through the insulating disk 10 and project a suitable distance beyond the inner side of said disk and are adapted to be successively engaged by the contact arm or switch member 3 carried by the outer end of the second hand spindle as said arm is revolved by the latter. The other wire 14: of the circuit is passed through and insulated from the tube 11 and electrically connected at its inner end to the contact finger or switch 3 of the second handle spindle preferably loosely encircling the hub of said finger to permit the finger to rotate independently thereof and whereby when said finger is brought into engagement with any of the contact screws 13 the electric circuit to the lamp will be completed thus causing the same to flash. The contact finger 3 is insulated from the spindle of the second hand thus preventing the short circuiting of the current through the clock. There may be any number of contact screws arranged in the plate 9, the same being here shown as having arranged therein eight screws thus causing the contact finger to make eight contacts a minute and eight corresponding flashes of the lamp in the glass.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood with out requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advan tages of the invention as defined in the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is:

In an advertising device, a translating device, an electric circuit connected with said device, a stationary switch member arranged in said circuit, a series of contact elements arranged in said stationary switch member,

a tube having an electric connection with said contact elements and with one of the contact wires of said circuit, the other con tact wire extending through said tube and insulated therefrom, a contact finger, means for actuating said finger, said finger having an electrical connection with the electric wire passing through said tube and adapted to successively engage said contact elements, thereby periodically completing the electric circuit.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BERNARD ALPHOSE NEAGLE.

Vitnesses:

D. H. GLADSTONE, FRANK KELLERMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G. 

